Our tips for teaching: collaborate, connect and get creative

Gemma Moore, Marina Chang, Community Partner (Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering) 10 minute talk This is a story of one online session, but behind it lies years of collaboration. One of our collaborations is a lecture about open space and food systems for the MSc module Health and Wellbeing in Cities. This lecture isContinue reading Our tips for teaching: collaborate, connect and get creative

The importance of learning and feedback through collaboration in a large-scale, cross-departmental, student project

Ryan Grammenos (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) 10 minute talk This presentation will talk about what we “learned about learning” in the current climate, and the need for and value of collaboration between staff and students. The talk will draw on the experience of running a cross-disciplinary project across two departments for over 400 first-year studentsContinue reading The importance of learning and feedback through collaboration in a large-scale, cross-departmental, student project

Bringing Language Learners Closer (BLLC): A ChangeMakers Project on Social Interaction in the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom

Alejandro Bolaños-García-Escribano, Mazal Oaknín (SELCS), Marga Navarrete (SELCS/CMII) (contributions from PG Research Students: Lydia Hayes. UG Students: Nadia Massoud, Kat Pirnak, Clemency Connolly-Linden, Kieran Lewis, Ellen Cusack) (SELCS/CMII) 10 minute talk Scholarly inquiry on distance-learning practices in foreign language education is far from new and although in the past two decades many higher-education institutions hadContinue reading Bringing Language Learners Closer (BLLC): A ChangeMakers Project on Social Interaction in the Modern Foreign Languages Classroom

The use of video and audio feedback in the assessment of post-graduate coursework.

Samir Nuseibeh (Biochemical Engineering) 10 minute talk Traditionally, one of the main areas of complaint from student cohorts is the quality of feedback they receive on their coursework with many suggesting that written feedback is often meaningless and impersonal. There is an increasing amount of data in the literature to support the idea of movingContinue reading The use of video and audio feedback in the assessment of post-graduate coursework.

Help! 5 days to deadline day with just 1 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) participant. A subject identified for improvement

Tim Young (Queen Square Institute of Neurology) 10 minute talk The annual Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is the key collator of postgraduate student views, yet nationally participation is typically below 30% making interpretation challenging. Our distance-learning Clinical Neurology course experience, with some 80 students, demonstrates how to dramatically improve participation Our course 2017 PTESContinue reading Help! 5 days to deadline day with just 1 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) participant. A subject identified for improvement

Student Engagement in a Virtual Setting: A Departmental Society’s Experience

Aditya Mori, Arshiya Sawhney; Yash Dewan; Shivam Gujral; Raed Altaf (contributions from Amy Gardner; George Hawthorne; Anastasia Skuratova; Ed Collins) (Economics Department) 10 minute talk In this presentation we, the Senior Committee of The Economist’s Society (the student society of UCL Economics), will reflect on the content and the format of events we have organised duringContinue reading Student Engagement in a Virtual Setting: A Departmental Society’s Experience

Driving change through Staff-Student dialogue: The first 5 years of the UCL Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice.

Sandra Lusk, Sophie Keresztes, Tim Young (contributions from Abbie King, (UCL Arena Centre) 10 minute talk The Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice programme brings staff and students together in reflective dialogue about the staff member’s teaching practice. UCL has run Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice every academic year since 2016/17, leading to staff-student dialogue andContinue reading Driving change through Staff-Student dialogue: The first 5 years of the UCL Student Reviewers of Teaching Practice.

Automated, collaborative, receptive and interactive: a data generation exercise for teaching statistics

Dean Langan (Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) 10 minute talk Students find it easier to engage when presented with examples from a familiar subject area. However, when teaching students of varying professional backgrounds, finding relatable examples can be especially challenging. Data generation exercises offer a solution for training in statistics as all studentsContinue reading Automated, collaborative, receptive and interactive: a data generation exercise for teaching statistics

Moving the face-to-face workshops of the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club online

Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva (SELCS) 10 minute talk The SELCS Brazilian Translation Cub is a series of workshops in which students, translators, and enthusiasts of Brazilian literature meet to discuss the translation of a selected contemporary Brazilian short story. We offered 15 workshops from January 2019 to November 2020: 10 workshops at UCL andContinue reading Moving the face-to-face workshops of the SELCS Brazilian Translation Club online

Teaching practical classes during a pandemic: how do we support students remotely?

Asma Buanz, Maryam Parhizkar (contributions from Mrs Isabel Goncalves (Department of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy ) 10 minute talk An important aspect of Pharmacy degree is practical skills in Pharmaceutics. We deliver practical classes for Pharmaceutical Technology, where 2nd year students work in groups to develop a formulation of a fictitious new therapeutic agentContinue reading Teaching practical classes during a pandemic: how do we support students remotely?